I don't know what Google was thinking allowing one of their OS users to brand their device the Droid, total marketplace confusion.
it would be pretty hypocritical to attack apple for not allowing developers to cause marketplace confusion, and then turn around not allow their resellers to do it.
i don't fear people that criticize the way i communicate... especially ones that would use sentences such as "Oh but then, hmm."
in the 80s i sold programs for IBM machines written in quickbasic... why? hmm. because everyone had one, and it worked sufficiently. i also sold programs for apple ][ c+ machines written in apple basic. in high school i sold programs to other students for their TI graphing calculators written in z80 assembly. why? hmm. because everyone had one, and it worked sufficiently. i have programmed in every modern language for every modern platform that have made any significant blimp on any usage radar. why? hmm. can you guess? Oh but then, hmmmmmmmmmmm i must just be a "apply fanboy" (is that a word? shouldn't you capitalize proper nouns?)
i have written native android apps that have far less users than their iphone equivalent. i don't care if apple chooses to remove my apps... i CERTAINLY don't fear it.
you are clearly an idiot, and that does not require corroboration. (that is how you spell the word, genious)
well... for the most part american enterprise is incapable of not paying a fair wage or using child labor. laws and unions and malicious media and such.
sorry, you made a type. You obviously meant to write, "china makes shit that everyone else in the world buys by the ton, likely because the rest of the world is incapable of making the same shit themselves for similar cost, and china would like to see it shipped to end customers faster."
putting hateful words in the mouths of others is something only an asshole would do.
Even better would be to go back to the good ol' days and prohibit marketing prescription drugs to anyone without a license to prescribe drugs. Crazy, I know.
i think it's less crazy to prohibit the marketing to anyone than just some people.
doctors should already have a public database of drug claims and clinical trial information. if a patient has high blood pressure, the doctor can look through all the drugs that claim to treat that ailment and see clinical results to make an informed decision. no marketing required.
I've never understood this. Why are you telling other developers what to do with their time? If you don't want their framework, IGNORE IT. If you want libraries, build them.
you do realize that you are doing exactly what you are claiming you don't understand why people do, don't you?
it just took me 2 hours in a car to make the same trip that takes 75 minutes on the train... usually the car takes 60 minutes, but traffic was bad. consistency comes free with that extra time on average per trip.
i have no idea about the home prices... i rent, as does everyone else within a mile of the station. every destination i've had (generally downtown san francisco) has been walking distance from a train station. they just added another giant apartment complex near the station by my house. do you really think it's impossible that everyone could live close to the rail if it was necessary or society demanded it? have you seen the apartment complexes in most major cities? it might take longer to reach my destination, but i would also be free to do something other than "reach my destination"... perhaps catch up on communications, read, watch videos, take a nap, etc... so overall the time spent throughout the day is more productive.
Trains aren't sufficiently versatile for most people and uses. It's that simple.
how is that simple? are you saying that they could NEVER be sufficiently versatile for most people and uses?
What these projects are really are massive gifts from those of us who can't make use of the lines to those who happen to live nearby and want to travel along the rail corridor.
i currently live 1 block from a BART station in walnut creek, CA. BART is a multi-track, multi-line high speed train network which runs into san francisco and the rest of the bay area... if the train station wasn't here, i wouldn't have moved here. so your assumption that the only people to benefit are those that "happen to live nearby" doesn't take into account that everyone has the option of benefiting by moving closer to a train station.
i play with the optimus mini three v2 ("check/fold", "check/call", "bet/raise"), and griffin powermate to vary bet sizes in no limit or pot limit games (turn knob), and switch tables (press knob).
actually we do get a say... if you want this, start a lab. charge very high fees to cover the cost of testing any sample sent in against your database. if you're a coroner and you have a mutilated unknown body and know of this lab that provides this free service, are you going to withhold the sample on privacy concerns? to protect who's privacy? to save time? it's your job. to save money? it's free. if it catches on, there might be many different labs... the coroner isn't going to send out a ton of samples, so the labs will have to partner with each other and share data and let the market sort out absorption. there is no need for this service in government.
i didn't miss the point... i thought i proved it wrong by contradiction. the bank teller puts up the plastic wall to protect them, seemingly, from me... i get that... they are doing it for them... but i also have a right to do things for me... namely choosing who i do business with.
the chance of me benefiting from a national DNA database is probably far less than one in a million, whereas a vulnerability has been attached to everyone in the form of invasion of privacy and risk of corrupt or altered data being used to wrongly inform a family that someone is dead that isn't, or charge an individual that didn't commit a crime and wasn't otherwise a suspect. how many mutilated (unidentifiable by any other means than DNA) bodies are found every year? aren't dental records already more effective AND less likely to decay over time? it must be a lot if we're all taking time to get sequenced by the state. what if there was new virus or cancer or dna mutation or whatever that randomly kills 1 in a 100,000,000 people every year... a treatment is developed that guarantees immunity to the threat... would you prescribe the treatment to every person no matter what the cost? what if the treatment itself included a 1 in 50,000,000 chance at death?
crime prevention is a psychological issue, not a physical one.
i don't enjoy talking to my banker behind a sheet of bulletproof plastic. i don't want to bank where that has been deemed necessary. i don't want required blood samples to verify abducted and mutilated bodies. more unintended negative consequences will come from it than what it was intended for. just like the bulletproof plastic... "yes, can i get a cashiers check for the full balance of my account, and then go ahead and close it. thanks!"
and now we have relatively cheap automated cameras on roads set to enforce a limit set by people whose continued employment depends on the revenues generated.
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totally different? they both cause marketplace confusion, yes?
I don't know what Google was thinking allowing one of their OS users to brand their device the Droid, total marketplace confusion.
it would be pretty hypocritical to attack apple for not allowing developers to cause marketplace confusion, and then turn around not allow their resellers to do it.
in the 80s i sold programs for IBM machines written in quickbasic... why? hmm. because everyone had one, and it worked sufficiently. i also sold programs for apple ][ c+ machines written in apple basic. in high school i sold programs to other students for their TI graphing calculators written in z80 assembly. why? hmm. because everyone had one, and it worked sufficiently. i have programmed in every modern language for every modern platform that have made any significant blimp on any usage radar. why? hmm. can you guess? Oh but then, hmmmmmmmmmmm i must just be a "apply fanboy" (is that a word? shouldn't you capitalize proper nouns?)
i have written native android apps that have far less users than their iphone equivalent. i don't care if apple chooses to remove my apps... i CERTAINLY don't fear it.
you are clearly an idiot, and that does not require corroboration. (that is how you spell the word, genious)
well... for the most part american enterprise is incapable of not paying a fair wage or using child labor. laws and unions and malicious media and such.
The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.
i create the apps... i fear nothing.
the employees of google are presumptuous AND wrong.
putting hateful words in the mouths of others is something only an asshole would do.
if we know that doctors are basing their educated guesses on the same marketing available to patients, then why are prescriptions required?
Even better would be to go back to the good ol' days and prohibit marketing prescription drugs to anyone without a license to prescribe drugs. Crazy, I know.
i think it's less crazy to prohibit the marketing to anyone than just some people.
doctors should already have a public database of drug claims and clinical trial information. if a patient has high blood pressure, the doctor can look through all the drugs that claim to treat that ailment and see clinical results to make an informed decision. no marketing required.
you are stupid.
I've never understood this. Why are you telling other developers what to do with their time? If you don't want their framework, IGNORE IT. If you want libraries, build them.
you do realize that you are doing exactly what you are claiming you don't understand why people do, don't you?
they also live at their MOMs
it just took me 2 hours in a car to make the same trip that takes 75 minutes on the train... usually the car takes 60 minutes, but traffic was bad. consistency comes free with that extra time on average per trip.
Trains aren't sufficiently versatile for most people and uses. It's that simple.
how is that simple? are you saying that they could NEVER be sufficiently versatile for most people and uses?
What these projects are really are massive gifts from those of us who can't make use of the lines to those who happen to live nearby and want to travel along the rail corridor.
i currently live 1 block from a BART station in walnut creek, CA. BART is a multi-track, multi-line high speed train network which runs into san francisco and the rest of the bay area... if the train station wasn't here, i wouldn't have moved here. so your assumption that the only people to benefit are those that "happen to live nearby" doesn't take into account that everyone has the option of benefiting by moving closer to a train station.
it doesn't work out of the box, but you can configure it to work with all sites...
i play with the optimus mini three v2 ("check/fold", "check/call", "bet/raise"), and griffin powermate to vary bet sizes in no limit or pot limit games (turn knob), and switch tables (press knob).
I don't see why it is wrong that a child should conclude that society expects that it is possible that they will commit a crime.
it isn't wrong at all... that is the problem.
they might as well make a law, "everything that should be not be legal is illegal."
actually we do get a say... if you want this, start a lab. charge very high fees to cover the cost of testing any sample sent in against your database. if you're a coroner and you have a mutilated unknown body and know of this lab that provides this free service, are you going to withhold the sample on privacy concerns? to protect who's privacy? to save time? it's your job. to save money? it's free. if it catches on, there might be many different labs... the coroner isn't going to send out a ton of samples, so the labs will have to partner with each other and share data and let the market sort out absorption. there is no need for this service in government.
the benefits don't weigh out, and I have no interest in access to the data, so i don't think it's fair for others to demand it from me.
the chance of me benefiting from a national DNA database is probably far less than one in a million, whereas a vulnerability has been attached to everyone in the form of invasion of privacy and risk of corrupt or altered data being used to wrongly inform a family that someone is dead that isn't, or charge an individual that didn't commit a crime and wasn't otherwise a suspect. how many mutilated (unidentifiable by any other means than DNA) bodies are found every year? aren't dental records already more effective AND less likely to decay over time? it must be a lot if we're all taking time to get sequenced by the state. what if there was new virus or cancer or dna mutation or whatever that randomly kills 1 in a 100,000,000 people every year... a treatment is developed that guarantees immunity to the threat... would you prescribe the treatment to every person no matter what the cost? what if the treatment itself included a 1 in 50,000,000 chance at death?
that is how i see this situation...
HOLLLARIT!
i don't enjoy talking to my banker behind a sheet of bulletproof plastic. i don't want to bank where that has been deemed necessary. i don't want required blood samples to verify abducted and mutilated bodies. more unintended negative consequences will come from it than what it was intended for. just like the bulletproof plastic... "yes, can i get a cashiers check for the full balance of my account, and then go ahead and close it. thanks!"
and now we have relatively cheap automated cameras on roads set to enforce a limit set by people whose continued employment depends on the revenues generated.
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